Installing Adrenaline without PSN Access (Advanced users)

As most of you know, PSN spoofing no longer works but that doesn’t mean the end of the world for those that wish to play PSP games/homebrew on their PSVita. A well-written tutorial, some courage and a PSP are enough to get yourself Adrenaline by installing the smallest PSP demo available.

Fellow reddit user, doklo, has posted a guide on how to get Half-Minute Hero demo working on PSP (for US accounts) and WipeOut Demo (for EU accounts). In a nutshell, you get a license file by installing the game via the PSN download list on your PSP, you install Package Installer, the demo pkg and then copy the license file over to your Vita. Sounds simple, right?

Well, there’s a catch and here’s where you need quite a bit of courage and some experience with the PSVita. The catch is that you need to use IDU MODE, IDU mode or Demo mode is a mode that allows you to install certain packages and gives you more system options at the expense of messing something up. IDU mode also updates by itself so people who venture into it MUST TURN OFF WIFI ON THEIR VITA AND EVEN FORGET NETWORKS TO BE SAFE.

Another drawback of IDU mode is that initially, it’s locked in DEMO MODE, it’s quite easy to get out of this, you just need to hold “L,R,D-pad up and start”(L1, R1 as L,R on the PSTV) for a few seconds. The combination may not work immediately, do it a few times and it’ll work. Try not to panic. Another thing to note about DEMO mode is that if not connected to a power supply, the Vita shuts off after 5 minutes.

Make sure that you are using HENkaku r6 (stable) and that the Offline Installer is working properly in order to avoid any unnecessary issues. After installing the demo, just install Adrenaline: https://gist.github.com/TheOfficialFloW/0ed4e09e2d447e631416cb84d7c43107 If you’ve been living under a rock, Adrenaline is theFlow’s eCFW that runs via taiHEN and it allows you to run PSP backups/homebrew.

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You don’t “get” HENkaku from installing a PSP demo… You get Adrenaline (i.e. the ability to run PSP games on the PS Vita). Adrenaline doesn’t work if you don’t have a PSP game/demo installed on the PS Vita, which is weird, since I thought we had kernel access on the damn thing and could decrypt anything on it.

How do you not have a PSN account on your Vita? You must enter your PSN credentials when setting up your system AFAIK. You can do a burner account and restore your Vita and log in during setup and then you’ll have a PSN account bound with your Vita. I haven’t tried it but reddit users have confirmed that you can still attach your Vita to a PSN account even tho the spoof is down during setup (besides, it worked when 3.61 was out so it’s not spoof dependant)

Well, I was able to install free apps and PSP demos without activating my PSVita so yeah.. Not too sure on what you’re saying. Activation is only required for paid content AFAIK. And no, you can access PSN without activating, I did it myself wifh HENkaku last September

Is there any way to get around Adrenaline requiring your Vita/PSTV to be activated on PSN for it to work? I had to restore my PSTV due to some issues, and with Sony now forcing users to update their firmware to access and activate on PSN, my PSTV is essentially stuffed when it comes to PSP gaming. (I’ve tried Vita-Activator already, it comes back with an IDPS error.)

You can activate vitas with low firmware using qcma and a ps3 as a bridge , you do need a spoofing program so that it goes tru without checking the vita firmware and thats it activate low firmware vita

No. Adrenaline needs HENkaku and HENkaku is only available for 3.60 or lower (lower, as in… they’ll have to update to 3.60). For anything higher than 3.60 it’s going to need a new exploit. It took 4-5 years for the Vita to be hacked. Don’t hold your breath for anything soon, if at all.

You can do this with a another vita with adrenaline already installed, just log your account in the virtual vita, download the demo use vitashell to copy the licence file and follow the rest of the tutorial, it helped me to replace a psp game for a demo for space reasons

Hey guys , I think i Have the Solution to this Problem . Basicly what im proposing is to INSTALL PACKAGE INSTALLER , and use QCMA to transfer a PSP DEMO PKG and then RUN ADRENALINE . you cant play the PSP DEMO but it created the necessary environment to get the job done!!

I’m pretty sure you need to be able to play the game to actually launch Adrenaline. I tried this method and it did install, but couldn’t launch.

I’d recommend the PS3 method.

1. Login to PSN on PS3, download a PSP game you own or a demo 2. Connect Vita to PC with QCMA 3. Unplug Vita from PC (from the USB cable, leave the Vita end plugged in) 4. Plug Vita into PS3 by USB 5.Transfer game from PS3 to Vita

sooo it didnt work for me ..when starting adrenaline is says cannot start this application , you must download again.. *** killer but w.e. Also i wanted to clariy what i was doing .. start on henkaku, then install package installer, transfer a psp demo pkg and install , then switch to TailHen and start Easy installer after adding the 661.pbp file doesnt work but maybe someone can get it to somehow

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